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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): Last Call for Project Showcases
by Announce 16 May '26

16 May '26

*** Last Call for Project Showcases *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026 The VARIABILITY conference series brings together the communities previously served by ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS, forming a unified venue for research on variability, configuration, customization, and related disciplines in software and systems engineering. As part of this mission, VARIABILITY 2026 invites submissions to its Project Showcase Track, a forum dedicated to presenting ongoing or recently completed research projects. The track offers a stage for research teams to share their vision, goals, early outcomes, intermediate results, final achievements, and lessons learned from funded projects of all scales, including collaborative research centers, EU projects, and nationally or regionally funded initiatives. The goal is to encourage interaction, foster collaboration opportunities, and help disseminate project insights to the broader community. Objectives and Scope We welcome submissions on research projects that address reuse, product lines, and variable/configurable software systems. A list of research topics that are relevant for this track is available from the call for the papers for the VARIABILITY 2026 Research Track, at: https://conf.researchr.org/track/variability-2026/variability-2026-papers#C… Submissions are expected to describe ongoing or recently completed research projects within this scope. This track is not intended for publishing mature research results. Instead, it focuses on project summaries and overviews, highlighting goals, structure, challenges, insights, and project level impact. Examples of suitable submissions include: • Ongoing projects focusing on goals, challenges, methodology, or early findings • Recently completed projects summarizing outcomes, evidence, and impact • Large scale, collaborative, or multi partner efforts, where visibility and networking are beneficial • Smaller or emerging projects that would benefit from early feedback and exposure PhD thesis projects are not in scope for this track. We warmly encourage PhD candidates to submit their work to the VARIABILITY 2026 Doctoral Symposium. Submission Format • Length: 7 to 10 pages, excluding references • Format: LNCS (Springer), single blind submissions Each submission will receive feedback from three reviewers. All submissions must adhere to the LNCS (Springer) format. Please refer to the official LNCS template at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . Submissions must be in PDF format and submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=variability2026 (Select “Projects Showcase Track”). Presentation and Publication Accepted papers will appear in the VARIABILITY 2026 Companion Proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series. Accepted submissions will receive a presentation slot. At least one author of each accepted paper must: • Register for the full conference, and • Present the contribution at the event Evaluation Criteria Submissions will be evaluated on: • Relevance to the conference scope • Clarity of project goals, context, and contributions • Potential for impact, collaboration, reuse, or technology transfer • Value for discussion and interaction at the conference The focus is on clarity, relevance, and value to the community rather than scientific novelty. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission of Papers: 1 June 2026 • Notification of Acceptance: 21 June 2026 • Camera-Ready Submission: 15 July 2026 • Author Registration: 15 July 2026 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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Universal Dependencies, release 2.18
by Dan Zeman 16 May '26

16 May '26

We are very happy to announce the twenty-fourth release of annotated treebanks in Universal Dependencies, v2.18, available at https://universaldependencies.org/. Universal Dependencies is a project that seeks to develop cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation for many languages with the goal of facilitating multilingual parser development, cross-lingual learning, and parsing research from a language typology perspective (de Marneffe et al., 2021; Nivre et al., 2020). The annotation scheme is based on (universal) Stanford dependencies (de Marneffe et al., 2006, 2008, 2014), Google universal part-of-speech tags (Petrov et al., 2012), and the Interset interlingua for morphosyntactic tagsets (Zeman, 2008). The general philosophy is to provide a universal inventory of categories and guidelines to facilitate consistent annotation of similar constructions across languages, while allowing language-specific extensions when necessary. The *353* treebanks in v2.18 are annotated according to version 2 of the UD guidelines and represent the following *193* languages: Abaza, Abkhaz, Afrikaans, Akkadian, Akuntsu, Albanian, Alemannic, Amharic, Ancient Greek, Ancient Hebrew, Apurina, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Assyrian, Azerbaijani, Bambara, Basque, Bavarian, Beja, Belarusian, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bokota, Bororo, Brahui, Breton, Bulgarian, Buryat, Cantonese, Cappadocian, Catalan, Cebuano, Central Kurdish, Chinese, Chintang, Chukchi, Classical Armenian, Classical Chinese, Coptic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian, English, Erzya, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian Dutch, Galician, Georgian, German, Gheg, Gorontalo, Gothic, Greek, Guajajara, Guarani, Gujarati, Gwichin, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Highland Puebla Nahuatl, Hindi, Hittite, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ika, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kaapor, Kadiweu, Kangri, Karelian, Karo, Kazakh, Khoekhoe, Kiche, Komi Permyak, Komi Zyrian, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latgalian, Latin, Latvian, Ligurian, Lithuanian, Livvi, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Madi, Maghrebi Arabic French, Makurap, Malayalam, Maltese, Manx, Marathi, Mbya Guarani, Middle Armenian, Middle French, Moksha, Munduruku, Naga, Naija, Neapolitan, Nenets, Nepali, Nheengatu, North Sami, Northern Kurdish, Northwest Gbaya, Norwegian, Occitan, Odia, Old Church Slavonic, Old East Slavic, Old English, Old French, Old Georgian, Old Irish, Old Occitan, Old Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Pashto, Paumari, Persian, Pesh, Phrygian, Polish, Pomak, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Ruuli, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Shanghainese, Sicilian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Skolt Sami, Slovak, Slovenian, South Levantine Arabic, Southern Kurdish, Spanish, Spanish Sign Language, Swedish, Swedish Sign Language, Tagalog, Tamil, Tatar, Teko, Telugu, Telugu English, Thai, Tswana, Tupinamba, Turkish, Turkish English, Turkish German, Ukrainian, Umbrian, Upper Sorbian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Veps, Vietnamese, Warlpiri, Welsh, Western Armenian, Western Sierra Puebla Nahuatl, Wolof, Xavante, Xibe, Yakut, Yiddish, Yoruba, Yupik, Zaar and Zazaki. The 193 languages belong to *36* families: Afro-Asiatic, Arawakan, Arawan, Austro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Basque, Bororoan, Chibchan, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Code switching, Constructed, Creole, Dravidian, Eskimo-Aleut, Guaicuruan, Indo-European, Japanese, Kartvelian, Khoe-Kwadi, Korean, Macro-Je, Mande, Mayan, Mongolic, Na-Dene, Niger-Congo, Northwest Caucasian, Pama-Nyungan, Sign Language, Sino-Tibetan, Tai-Kadai, Tungusic, Tupian, Turkic, Uralic and Uto-Aztecan. Depending on the language, the treebanks range in size from less than 1,000 tokens to over 3 million tokens. We expect the next release to be available in November 2026. The size of the following 41 treebanks changed significantly since the last release: Abkhaz AbNC : 10585 → 13054 Assamese AiW : 0 → 871 Brahui Kholum : 0 → 819 Cappadocian AMGiC : 451 → 820 Egyptian PC : 0 → 34234 Egyptian UJaen : 24375 → 0 Gorontalo BungoLoLombi : 0 → 205 Greek GLCII : 0 → 9868 Greek Lesbian : 5926 → 6840 Hausa EasternAutogramm : 0 → 9485 Hausa NorthernAutogramm : 4158 → 15424 Hebrew PostRab : 0 → 8029 Italian KIParlaForest : 9348 → 18680 Kadiweu Unicamp : 0 → 318 Khunsari AHA : 74 → 0 Korean KSL : 137122 → 155104 Latin CIRCSE : 24899 → 29055 Marathi CMUPAN : 0 → 118198 Mbya Guarani Dooley : 11771 → 0 Middle Armenian ArmTDP : 0 → 1093 Middle French PROFITEROLE : 89809 → 119001 Nayini AHA : 78 → 0 Nepali BK : 0 → 801 Odia ODTB : 1029 → 5818 Old Georgian GLC : 0 → 6884 Old Occitan CorAG : 45389 → 52539 Ottoman Turkish DUDU : 17125 → 22027 Ottoman Turkish TueCL : 0 → 929 Pashto Prince : 0 → 1180 Pashto Sikaram : 4067 → 5467 Phrygian KUL : 1687 → 1921 Punjabi CS : 0 → 1903 Punjabi Rang : 0 → 1907 Ruuli RDT : 0 → 6301 Sinhala Appuwa : 0 → 669 Soi AHA : 55 → 0 Swedish SweLL : 8644 → 10895 Turkish English BUTR : 393 → 441 Western Sierra Puebla Nahuatl ITML : 9461 → 0 Western Sierra Puebla Nahuatl MesoTree: 0 → 19535 Zazaki ZSD : 0 → 1441 In total, the new release contains *2,337,062* sentences, 37,424,698 surface tokens and *38,181,322* syntactic words. Daniel Zeman, Joakim Nivre, Rimsha Abid, Mitchell Abrams, Elia Ackermann, Jephtey Adolphe, Noëmi Aepli, Muhammad Afzal, Željko Agić, Lars Ahrenberg, Chika Kennedy Ajede, Arofat Akhundjanova, Furkan Akkurt, Orly Albek, Gabrielė Aleksandravičiūtė, Dominick Maia Alexandre, Ika Alfina, Avner Algom, Khalid Alnajjar, Chiara Alzetta, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Erik Andersen, Kirk Andrews, Matthew Andrews, Lene Antonsen, Tatsuya Aoyama, Katya Aplonova, Angelina Aquino, Carolina Aragon, Glyd Aranes, Maria Jesus Aranzabe, Bilge Nas Arıcan, Þórunn Arnardóttir, Wirote Aroonmanakun, Gashaw Arutie, Jessica Naraiswari Arwidarasti, Hiwa Asadpour, Masayuki Asahara, Katla Ásgeirsdóttir, Deniz Baran Aslan, Cengiz Asmazoğlu, Luma Ateyah, Furkan Atmaca, Mohammed Attia, Aitziber Atutxa, Liesbeth Augustinus, Mariana Avelãs, Salwan Aziz, Elena Badmaeva, Jana Bajorat, Keerthana Balasubramani, Miguel Ballesteros, Esha Banerjee, Sebastian Bank, Bryan Khelven da Silva Barbosa, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Starkaður Barkarson, Rodolfo Basile, Victoria Basmov, Colin Batchelor, John Bauer, Seyyit Talha Bedir, Zarina Begum, Shabnam Behzad, Nathanaël Beiner, Juan Belieni, Alevtina Bémová, Kepa Bengoetxea, İbrahim Benli, Yifat Ben Moshe, Marie Benzerrak, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Ansu Berg, Gözde Berk, Delphine Bernhard, Astrid Berntsson Ingelstam, Riyaz Ahmad Bhat, Erica Biagetti, Eckhard Bick, Agnė Bielinskienė, Esma Fatıma Bilgin Taşdemir, Helin Binici, Kristín Bjarnadóttir, Samuel BK, Verena Blaschke, Rogier Blokland, Nina Böbel, Victoria Bobicev, Loïc Boizou, Stavros Bompolas, Morgane Bona, Johnatan Bonilla, Emanuel Borges Völker, Lars Borin, Carl Börstell, Cristina Bosco, Gosse Bouma, Sam Bowman, Adriane Boyd, Anouck Braggaar, António Branco, Myriam Bras, Elisheva Brauner, Théo Brillet, Kristina Brokaitė, Lanni Bu, Eva Buráňová, Aljoscha Burchardt, Carmen Cabeza, Natalia Cáceres Arandia, Olesea Caftanatov, Marisa Campos, Marie Candito, Caterina Maria Cappello, Bernard Caron, Gauthier Caron, Catarina Carvalheiro, Rita Carvalho, Lauren Cassidy, Maria Clara Castro, Sérgio Castro, Tatiana Cavalcanti, Gülşen Cebiroğlu Eryiğit, Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini, Giuseppe G. A. Celano, Anila Çepani, Slavomír Čéplö, Neslihan Cesur, Savas Cetin, Özlem Çetinoğlu, Fabricio Chalub, Liyanage Chamila, Claudine Chamoreau, Aditi Chaudhary, Shweta Chauhan, Yifei Chen, Ethan Chi, Taishi Chika, Yongseok Cho, Jinho Choi, Bermet Chontaeva, Jayeol Chun, Juyeon Chung, Alessandra T. Cignarella, Silvie Cinková, Esther Cocco, Aurélie Collomb, Çağrı Çöltekin, Miriam Connor, Claudia Corbetta, Daniela Corbetta, Francisco Costa, Marine Courtin, Benoît Crabbé, Mihaela Cristescu, Vladimir Cvetkoski, Netanel Dahan, Ingerid Løyning Dale, Sabrina D'Alì, Philemon Daniel, Anna S. Danielyan, Khensa Daoudi, Bijayalaxmi Dash, Satya Ranjan Dash, Elizabeth Davidson, Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar, Mathieu Dehouck, Martina de Laurentiis, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ahmet Demir, Valeria de Paiva, Mehmet Oguz Derin, Elvis de Souza, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Roberto Antonio Díaz Hernández, Carly Dickerson, Ariani Di Felippo, Arawinda Dinakaramani, Elisa Di Nuovo, Bamba Dione, Peter Dirix, Hoa Do, Kaja Dobrovoljc, Mahîr Dogan, Caroline Döhmer, Adrian Doyle, Timothy Dozat, Kira Droganova, Magali Sanches Duran, Puneet Dwivedi, Andrew Dyer, Andrew Thomas Dyer, Christian Ebert, Hanne Eckhoff, Masaki Eguchi, Sandra Eiche, Roald Eiselen, Marhaba Eli, Ali Elkahky, Binyam Ephrem, Olga Erina, Tomaž Erjavec, Louise Esher, Soudabeh Eslami, Farah Essaidi, Aline Etienne, Wograine Evelyn, Sidney Facundes, Richárd Farkas, Ján Faryad, Federica Favero, Jannatul Ferdaousi, Marília Fernanda, Hector Fernandez Alcalde, Amal Fethi, Jennifer Foster, Barbara Francioni, Theodorus Fransen, Cláudia Freitas, Shlomit Fuchs, Kazunori Fujita, Katarína Gajdošová, Daniel Galbraith, Charlotte Chambelland Galves, Edith Galy, Federica Gamba, Marcos Garcia, José María García-Miguel, Moa Gärdenfors, Tanja Gaustad, Efe Eren Genç, Fabrício Ferraz Gerardi, Kim Gerdes, Luke Gessler, Filip Ginter, Gustavo Godoy, Iakes Goenaga, Koldo Gojenola, Memduh Gökırmak, Yoav Goldberg, Gili Goldin, Xavier Gómez Guinovart, Berta González Saavedra, Mathieu Goux, Caroline Grand-Clement, Bernadeta Griciūtė, Matias Grioni, Loïc Grobol, Normunds Grūzītis, Mario Guglielmetti, Bruno Guillaume, Kirian Guiller, Céline Guillot-Barbance, Tunga Güngör, Vladimir Gurevich, Nizar Habash, Hinrik Hafsteinsson, Michael Hahn, Jan Hajič, Jan Hajič jr., Eva Hajičová, Mika Hämäläinen, Linh Hà Mỹ, Na-Rae Han, Muhammad Yudistira Hanifmuti, Takahiro Harada, Sam Hardwick, Kim Harris, Naïma Hassert, Dag Haug, Jiří Havelka, Johannes Heinecke, Oliver Hellwig, Felix Hennig, Barbora Hladká, Jaroslava Hlaváčová, Florinel Hociung, Diana Hoefels, Barbara Hoff, Petter Hohle, Nick Howell, Yidi Huang, Marivel Huerta Mendez, Jena Hwang, Takumi Ikeda, Inessa Iliadou, Anton Karl Ingason, Radu Ion, Elena Irimia, Ọlájídé Ishola, Artan Islamaj, Kaoru Ito, Federica Iurescia, Jessica K. Ivani, Sandra Jagodzińska, Siratun Jannat, Tomáš Jelínek, Apoorva Jha, Ratanon Jiamsundutsadee, Katharine Jiang, Sylvanus Job, Mayank Jobanputra, Anders Johannsen, Hildur Jónsdóttir, Fredrik Jørgensen, Zhuoxuan Ju, María Ximena Juarez Huerta, Markus Juutinen, Hüner Kaşıkara, Nadezhda Kabaeva, Sylvain Kahane, Hiroshi Kanayama, Jenna Kanerva, Neslihan Kara, Ritván Karahóǧa, Jiří Kárník, Andre Kåsen, Tolga Kayadelen, Sarveswaran Kengatharaiyer, Václava Kettnerová, Ali Haider Khan, Lilit Kharatyan, Jesse Kirchner, Elena Klementieva, Christina Klironomou, Elena Klyachko, Petr Kocharov, Arne Köhn, Abdullatif Köksal, Veronika Kolářová, Kamil Kopacewicz, Timo Korkiakangas, Mehmet Köse, Alexey Koshevoy, Nelda Kote, Natalia Kotsyba, Barbara Kovačić, Jolanta Kovalevskaitė, Emmanuelle Kowner, Simon Krek, Parameswari Krishnamurthy, Sandra Kübler, Lucie Kučová, Adrian Kuqi, Elmurod Kuriyozov, Pranav Kushare, Oğuzhan Kuyrukçu, Aslı Kuzgun, Sookyoung Kwak, Kris Kyle, Käbi Laan, Veronika Laippala, Lorenzo Lambertino, Israel Landau, Tatiana Lando, Septina Dian Larasati, Pierre Larrivée, Kusum Lata, Alexei Lavrentiev, John Lee, Phương Lê Hồng, Alessandro Lenci, Wei Qi Leong, Saran Lertpradit, Herman Leung, Lori Levin, Maria Levina, Lauren Levine, Cheuk Ying Li, Josie Li, Keying Li, Yixuan Li, Yuan Li, KyungTae Lim, Bruna Lima Padovani, Yi-Ju Jessica Lin, Krister Lindén, Yitzchak Lindenbaum, Yang Janet Liu, Zoey Liu, Nikola Ljubešić, Irina Lobzhanidze, Olga Loginova, Markéta Lopatková, Lucelene Lopes, Edita Luftiu, Arsenii Lukashevskyi, Stefano Lusito, Anne-Marie Lutgen, Andry Luthfi, Mikko Luukko, Olga Lyashevskaya, Teresa Lynn, Vivien Macketanz, Menel Mahamdi, Jean Maillard, Punyanuch Maitreenukul, Ilya Makarchuk, Aibek Makazhanov, Francesco Mambrini, Michael Mandl, Christopher Manning, Ruli Manurung, Büşra Marşan, Cătălina Mărănduc, David Mareček, Katrin Marheinecke, Stella Markantonatou, Ángeles Márquez Hernández, Héctor Martínez Alonso, Lorena Martín Rodríguez, André Martins, Cláudia Martins, Arianna Masciolini, Jan Mašek, Sanatbek Matlatipov, Hiroshi Matsuda, Yuji Matsumoto, Caterina Mauri, Alessandro Mazzei, Ryan McDonald, Sarah McGuinness, Maitrey Mehta, Ephraim Meiri, Pierre André Ménard, Gustavo Mendonça, Hilla Merhav, Tatiana Merzhevich, Paul Meurer, Niko Miekka, Marie Mikulová, Emilia Milano, Aleksandra Miletić, Aaron Miller, Junghyun Min, Yael Minerbi, Jiří Mírovský, Karina Mischenkova, Anna Missilä, Cătălin Mititelu, Maria Mitrofan, Yusuke Miyao, Biswakalpita Mohapatra, Judit Molnár, Amirsaeid Moloodi, Simonetta Montemagni, Amir More, Laura Moreno Romero, Giovanni Moretti, Shinsuke Mori, Tomohiko Morioka, Shigeki Moro, Bjartur Mortensen, Bohdan Moskalevskyi, Katerina Mouzou, Kadri Muischnek, Robert Munro, Yugo Murawaki, Nikolett Mus, Kaili Müürisep, Pinkey Nainwani, Mariam Nakhlé, Minoo Nassajian, Juan Ignacio Navarro Horñiacek, Anna Nedoluzhko, Gunta Nešpore-Bērzkalne, Manuela Nevaci, Lương Nguyễn Thị, Huyền Nguyễn Thị Minh, Yoshihiro Nikaido, Vitaly Nikolaev, Rattima Nitisaroj, Victor Norrman, Alireza Nourian, Michal Novák, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes, Hanna Nurmi, Colleen Alena O'Brien, Stina Ojala, Atul Kr. Ojha, Hulda Óladóttir, Adédayọ̀ Olúòkun, Mai Omura, Emeka Onwuegbuzia, Noam Ordan, Petya Osenova, Robert Östling, Annika Ott, Lilja Øvrelid, Masanori Oya, Şaziye Betül Özateş, Merve Özçelik, Arzucan Özgür, Balkız Öztürk Başaran, Teresa Paccosi, Petr Pajas, Thomas Palakapilly, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Jarmila Panevová, Ludovica Pannitto, Anastasia Panova, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, Shantipriya Parida, Hyunji Hayley Park, Niko Partanen, Elena Pascual, Thelka Pasparaki, Marco Passarotti, Agnieszka Patejuk, Guilherme Paulino-Passos, Giulia Pedonese, Oggi Peeters, Angelika Peljak-Łapińska, Siyao Peng, Siyao Logan Peng, Rita Pereira, Sílvia Pereira, Cenel-Augusto Perez, Natalia Perkova, Guy Perrier, Slav Petrov, Daria Petrova, Eva Pettersson, Andrea Peverelli, Jason Phelan, Claudel Pierre-Louis, Jussi Piitulainen, Yuval Pinter, Clara Pinto, Rodrigo Pintucci, Tommi A Pirinen, Emily Pitler, Magdalena Plamada, Barbara Plank, Alistair Plum, Thierry Poibeau, Charin Polpanumas, Larisa Ponomareva, Martin Popel, Clamença Poujade, Rangga Prangwedana Prangwedana, Lauma Pretkalniņa, Rigardt Pretorius, Sophie Prévost, Prokopis Prokopidis, Adam Przepiórkowski, Robert Pugh, Tiina Puolakainen, Christoph Purschke, Sampo Pyysalo, Peng Qi, Andreia Querido, Andriela Rääbis, Ella Rabinovich, Alexandre Rademaker, Mutee-u Rahman, Mizanur Rahoman, Taraka Rama, Loganathan Ramasamy, Carlos Ramisch, Joana Ramos, Fam Rashel, Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Vinit Ravishankar, Livy Real, Petru Rebeja, Siva Reddy, Mathilde Regnault, Georg Rehm, Arij Riabi, Ivan Riabov, Michael Rießler, Erika Rimkutė, Larissa Rinaldi, Laura Rituma, Putri Rizqiyah, Luisa Rocha, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, Ivan Roksandic, Norton Trevisan Roman, Mykhailo Romanenko, Natalia Romanova, Rudolf Rosa, Valentin Roșca, Paulette Roulon, Davide Rovati, Ben Rozonoyer, Olga Rudina, Jack Rueter, Paolo Ruffolo, Kristján Rúnarsson, Rozana Rushiti, Attapol T. Rutherford, Shoval Sadde, Pegah Safari, Aleksi Sahala, Kalyanamalini Sahoo, Saraswati Sahoo, Shadi Saleh, Alessio Salomoni, Tanja Samardžić, Warangana Sammani, Konstantinos Sampanis, Stephanie Samson, Xulia Sánchez-Rodríguez, Filomena Spatti Sandalo, Manuela Sanguinetti, Ezgi Sanıyar, Dage Särg, Marta Sartor, Albina Sarymsakova, Mitsuya Sasaki, Baiba Saulīte, Agata Savary, Yanin Sawanakunanon, Shefali Saxena, Kevin Scannell, Salvatore Scarlata, Emmanuel Schang, Robert Schikowski, Nathan Schneider, Sebastian Schuster, Lane Schwartz, Djamé Seddah, Wolfgang Seeker, Sven Sellmer, Kaushik Sengupta, Mojgan Seraji, Magda Ševčíková, Petr Sgall, Syeda Shahzadi, Mo Shen, Atsuko Shimada, Gyu-Ho Shin, Hiroyuki Shirasu, Yana Shishkina, Avi Shmidman, Muh Shohibussirri, Maria Shvedova, Jean Sibille, Janine Siewert, Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, João Silva, Aline Silveira, Natalia Silveira, Sara Silveira, Maria Simi, Radu Simionescu, Katalin Simkó, Mária Šimková, Haukur Barri Símonarson, Kiril Simov, Dmitri Sitchinava, Ted Sither, Aaron Smith, Isabela Soares-Bastos, Per Erik Solberg, Dolores Sollberger, Barbara Sonnenhauser, Shafi Sourov, Nina Speransky, Rachele Sprugnoli, Panyut Sriwirote, Vivian Stamou, Steinþór Steingrímsson, Antonio Stella, Jan Štěpánek, Barbora Štěpánková, Abishek Stephen, Milan Straka, Omer Strass, Emmett Strickland, Jana Strnadová, Sara Stymne, Alane Suhr, Yogi Lesmana Sulestio, Umut Sulubacak, Jack Sun, Hakyung Sung, Shingo Suzuki, Daniel Swanson, Zsolt Szántó, Maria Irena Szawerna, Chihiro Taguchi, Dima Taji, Rachel Tal, Luigi Talamo, Fabio Tamburini, Mary Ann C. 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Undergraduate summer position (minimum wage, Ireland)
by Carl Vogel 15 May '26

15 May '26

Hello. A position suitable for a qualified undergraduate student with the right to work in Ireland has become available. Questions may be directed to fintan.obyrne(a)adaptcentre.ie with subject line: Research Assistant UX/Interaction Designer. For details, see: https://www.adaptcentre.ie/careers/research-assistant-ux-interaction-design… Colleagues are seeking a research assistant UX/Interaction Designer to support the team on a temporary basis for the following workloads: ● AI Dataset pre-processing tasks – Review large dataset of CC0 images and carry out batch operations on audited subsets to normalise the data for model training. ● Support the maintenance of a documented design system that will be utilised for the generation of screens for various workflows ● Mocking screenflows using AI assisted design tools and processes ● Visual testing of screens and logging of issues ● Manual content population of art catalogues for pilot projects Qualifications and skills ● This position is ideally suited to an undergraduate studying UX/Interaction Design ● Experience with Photoshop, Figma essential ● Experience with AI assisted design tools like Claude Design essential ● Knowledge and familiarity with the history of art a definite advantage ● Prior experience working with large visual datasets a definite advantage This is a hybrid 3-month specific purpose research assistant position. Candidates must be available to work on site in the ADAPT Centre in Trinity College Dublin as required. Please direct any questions to fintan.obyrne(a)adaptcentre.ie with subject line: Research Assistant UX/Interaction Designer. All my best, Carl Vogel

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May 2026 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 May '26

15 May '26

In this newsletter: New publications: MADCAT Phases 1-3 Composite Evaluation Set<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026T05> CALLHOME German Second Edition<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S06> CALLHOME German Lexicon Second Edition<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026L04> ________________________________ New publications: MADCAT Phases 1-3 Composite Evaluation Set<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026T05> contains the evaluation data created by LDC for Phases 1-3 of the DARPA MADCAT program and the NIST OpenHaRT<https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/openhart> 2010 and 2013 evaluations. It consists of handwritten Arabic documents scanned at high resolution and annotated for the physical coordinates of each line and token, digital transcripts, and English translations with content and annotation layers integrated in a single MADCAT XML output. This release includes 1,643 images and corresponding annotation files. Source documents were web text and newswire collected by LDC. Arabic-speaking scribes copied documents by hand, following specific instructions as to the writing style, writing implement, and paper. Each page was scanned and the images annotated. The goal of the MADCAT program was to automatically convert foreign language text images into English transcripts for use by humans and downstream processes, including summarization and information extraction. The core evaluation task in MADCAT was the translation of handwritten Arabic documents. 2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * CALLHOME German Second Edition<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S06> was developed by LDC and contains 48 hours of speech from 100 unscripted telephone conversations between native German speakers. This publication is a re-release of the original CALLHOME German collection, combining CALLHOME German Speech (LDC97S43)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC97S43> and CALLHOME German Transcripts (LDC97T15)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC97T15>, with additional transcription and updated directory structure, file formats, and documentation. This release contains the 100 telephone conversations published in CALLHOME German Speech which represented training data (80 calls) and development data (20 calls). Participants spoke on topics of their choice in a single telephone call lasting up to 30 minutes. Calls were manually audited for language, recording quality, channel characteristics, dialect, and region. For this second edition, all audio was converted from SPHERE files to FLAC format, and the original training/development partitioning was removed. This release also features revised transcripts conforming to updated LDC transcription guidelines that addressed normalization of annotation formats, standardization of speaker-produced and background noises, application of foreign-language marking, whitespace cleanup, and corrections and consistency fixes. The CALLHOME series consists of telephone conversations and transcripts developed by LDC and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in support of research in speaker identification, language identification, and related technologies. Languages in the series include American English, Egyptian Arabic, German, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. 2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * CALLHOME German Lexicon Second Edition<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026L04> was developed by LDC and contains 318,809 German words with morphological, phonological, stress, and frequency information. This second edition updates file formats, directory structure, and documentation. The first edition is available as CALLHOME German Lexicon (LDC97L18)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC97L18>. The words in the lexicon were derived from the CELEX German lexicon (CELEX2 (LDC96L14)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC96L14>) and from 100 training and development transcripts representing unscripted telephone conversations between native German speakers contained in CALLHOME German Second Edition, LDC2026S04. The lexicon has seven tab-separated information fields: (1) headword: orthographic form; (2) morph: morphological analysis of the headword; (3) pron: pronunciation of the headword; (4) stress: primary stress information of the word; (5) celex: whether the headword appears in the CELEX German lexicon; (6) train_freq: frequency of the headword in the CALLHOME training transcripts; and (7) dev_freq: frequency of the headword in the CALLHOME development transcripts. This release also includes a pronunciation dictionary derived from the lexicon in CMUdict<https://stdlib.io/docs/api/latest/@stdlib/datasets/cmudict> format. 2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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[EXTENDED DEADLINE] CFP: CLEF 2026 – Submission Deadline Extended to 25 May 2026 (AoE)
by Philipp Schaer 14 May '26

14 May '26

Dear colleagues, The submission deadline for CLEF 2026 has been extended to 25 May 2026 (AoE). We invite submissions to the 17th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2026), to be held in Jena, Germany, from 21–24 September 2026. CLEF 2026 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visualization https://clef2026.clef-initiative.eu/calls/papers/ Important Dates (AoE) * 25 May 2026: Extended full paper submission deadline (Long; Short; Past, Present, Future) * 29 May 2026: Best of 2025 Labs paper submission * 26 June 2026: Notification of acceptance * 17 July 2026: Camera-ready version due * 21–24 September 2026: Conference in Jena, Germany Aim and Scope The CLEF Conference addresses all aspects of Information Access in any modality and language. CLEF consists of the presentation of research papers and a series of workshops presenting the results of lab-based comparative evaluation benchmarks. CLEF 2026 continues the CLEF campaigns running since 2000, contributing to the systematic evaluation of information access systems through experimentation on shared tasks. The conference focuses on experimental Information Access as carried out within evaluation forums such as CLEF Labs, TREC, NTCIR, FIRE, MediaEval, RomIP, SemEval, and TAC, with particular attention to multimodality, multilinguality, and interactive search. CLEF welcomes submissions describing rigorous hypothesis testing regardless of whether results are positive or negative. Reproducibility and clear research design are strongly encouraged, as are links to code and data repositories. Topics of Interest * Information retrieval, question answering, recommender systems, image retrieval, search interfaces, and infrastructures * Interactive and conversational search evaluation, including RAG systems * Analytics for information access * Reproducibility and replicability studies * Fairness, accountability, transparency, ethics, and explainability (FATE) * Low-resource and multilingual information access * Collaborative and social data models * User studies and crowdsourcing * Evaluation methodologies, metrics, and statistical tools * Technology transfer and deployment * Domain-specific applications (health, legal, cultural heritage, social media, etc.) * New data collections * Reflections on past achievements and future research directions Paper Categories * Long research papers: 12 pages + references * Short research papers: 6 pages + references * Past, Present, Future papers: up to 12 pages For details on submission and formatting, please refer to https://clef2026.clef-initiative.eu/calls/papers/ Best Paper Award One outstanding paper will receive the CLEF 2026 Best Paper Award, sponsored by Springer LNCS, including a certificate and a €500 prize. We look forward to your submissions and to welcoming you to Jena for CLEF 2026. Best regards, Philipp Schaer, Eva Zangerle Program Committee Chairs CLEF 2026 ############################

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ACM ICMI 2026 Call for Late-Breaking Results (LBR)
by Gualtiero Volpe 14 May '26

14 May '26

ICMI 2026 CALL FOR LATE-BREAKING RESULTS (LBR) =============================================== 5-9 October 2026, Napoli - Italy https://icmi.acm.org/2026/ =============================================== Dear colleagues, Please find below the Call for Papers for the Late-Breaking Results (LBR) track of the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2026). Based on the success of the Late-Breaking Results (LBR) track, ICMI 2026 will continue soliciting submissions for this special venue. The goal of this venue is to provide a way for researchers to share emerging results at the conference. Accepted submissions will be presented in a poster session at the conference, and the extended abstract will be published in the Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) of the main ICMI Proceedings. Like similar venues at other conferences, the LBR venue is intended to allow sharing of ideas, getting formative feedback on early-stage work, and furthering collaborations among colleagues. * Online Submission https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions/icmi26a * Highlights - Submission deadline: June 21st, 2026 - Notifications: July 15th, 2026 - Camera-ready deadline: August 2nd, 2026 - Conference Dates: October 6–8, 2026 - Submission format: Anonymized short paper (four-page paper in a double-column format, not including references), following the submission guidelines - Selection process: Peer-Reviewed - Presentation format: Participation in the conference poster session - Proceedings: Included in the Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) and ACM Digital Library - LBR Co-chairs: Daniel Riccio and Hung-Hsuan Huang * What are Late-Breaking Results? Late-Breaking Results (LBR) submissions represent work such as preliminary results, provoking and current topics, novel experiences or interactions that may not have been fully validated yet, cutting-edge or emerging work that is still in exploratory stages, smaller-scale studies, or, in general, work that has not yet reached a level of maturity expected for the full-length main track papers. However, LBR papers are still expected to bring a contribution to the ICMI community, commensurate with the preliminary, short, and quasi-informal nature of this track. * Why submit to the Late-Breaking Results track at ICMI? Accepted LBR papers will be presented as posters during the conference. This provides an opportunity for researchers to receive feedback on early-stage work, explore potential collaborations, and otherwise engage in exciting, thought-provoking discussions about their work in an informal setting that is significantly less constrained than a paper presentation. The LBR track also offers those new to the ICMI community a chance to share their preliminary research as they become familiar with this field. Late-Breaking Results papers appear in the Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) of the ICMI Proceedings. Copyright is retained by the authors, and the material from these papers can be used as the basis for future publications as long as there are significant revisions, as per the ACM and ACM SIGCHI policies. LBR papers will be published as ACM extended abstracts in the Adjunct Proceedings. Under ACM Open, extended abstract article types are not subject to Article Processing Charges (APCs). * Submission Guidelines Extended Abstract An anonymized short paper, four-page paper in a double-column ACM conference format, using LaTeX or Word (excluding references). Papers should follow the same guidelines as papers published in the proceedings of the ACM ICMI conference. The paper should be submitted in PDF format and through the ICMI submission system in the "Late-Breaking Results" track. Due to the tight publication timeline, it is recommended that authors submit a very nearly finalized paper that is as close to camera-ready as possible, as there will be a very short timeframe for preparing the final camera-ready version, and no deadline extensions can be granted. Anonymization Authors are instructed not to include author information in their submission. In order to help reviewers judge the situation of the LBR relative to prior work, authors should not remove or anonymize references to their own prior work. Instead, authors should refer to their own prior work in the third person during submission. After acceptance, such references can be changed to first person if desired. * Review Process LBRs will be evaluated to the extent that they are presenting work still in progress, rather than complete work, which is under-described in order to fit into the LBR format. The LBR track will undergo an external peer review process. Submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors, including (1) the relevance of the work to ICMI, (2) the quality of the submission, and (3) the degree to which it fits the LBR track, for example, in-progress results. More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond. Authors should clearly justify how the proposed ideas can bring measurable breakthroughs compared to the state of the art. * Attendance Similar rules for registration and attendance will be applied for authors of LBR papers as for regular papers. Further information will be made available later on the conference website. * Website For updates, please visit: https://icmi.acm.org/2026/late-breaking-results/ * Contact For further questions, contact the LBR co-chairs, Daniel Riccio and Hung-Hsuan Huang, at: icmi2026-latebreaking-chairs(a)acm.org We would be grateful if you could circulate this call among colleagues and interested researchers. Best regards, ICMI 2026 LBR Chairs Daniel Riccio and Hung-Hsuan Huang

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[CfP] Second Call for Papers: Retrieval-Augmented Generation Enabled by Knowledge Graphs (RAGE-KG) Workshop at ISWC 2026
by a.graciotti＠rug.nl 13 May '26

13 May '26

Retrieval-Augmented Generation Enabled by Knowledge Graphs (RAGE-KG) Workshop - Co-located with: International Semantic Web Conference 2026 - Location and dates: Bari, Italy, October 25-29, 2026 - Workshop website: https://2026.rage-kg.org/ - Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ragekg2026 - Abstract registration deadline: July 17, 2026 - Submission deadline: July 24, 2026 RAGE-KG explores the state of the art and goes beyond in integrating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Knowledge Graphs as well as the synergies between Large Language Models and the Linked Open Data ecosystem. We aim to foster innovative RAG architectures relying on Semantic Web standards and new approaches to make Linked Open Data usable by LLMs, enhancing their ability to generate reliable, verifiable and context-aware responses based on structured, decentralized and authoritative data sources. Submission Guidelines - Short papers describing novel research contributions and preliminary results. Related to workshop topics. 4-6 pages excluding references. - Full papers describing novel research contributions of extended length. Related to workshop topics. 8-12 pages excluding references. - The papers will be peer-reviewed (single-blind) by multiple researchers. - Upon acceptance, one author must register at the conference and present at the workshop. List of Topics - RAG Architectures - RAG and KAG (Knowledge-Augmented Generation) architectures leveraging Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Web standards and Linked Data - RAG and KAG design patterns including GraphRAG and AI Agents - Evaluating RAG and KAG architectures with structured data - LLMs and Structured Data - Training and fine-tuning LLMs with structured data - Prompting Language Models with structured data - Language Model-supported and ontology-supported SPARQL query generation - Innovative Approaches - Neurosymbolic approaches for integrating Language Models with Linked Open Data, Semantic Web and Knowledge Graphs - Use Cases, Work-In-Progress and, especially, Bold Proposals for RAG systems - Special track on RAG-systems for Human-AI Value Alignment - RAG-based approaches for content moderation and harm reduction; - Designing RAG systems to deal with human subjectivity Committees - Organizing committee - Daniel Dobriy - Marco Antonio Stranisci - Arianna Graciotti - Blerina Spahiu - Sahar Vahdati Publication - Papers will be submitted to be published with CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/) and must follow the 1-column CEUR format (https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART): - Overleaf template (https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w…) - Latex template (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZY4bp2loFKkves6HE7q5j0HaQRT7ov06ZtmO3vZ…) Venue - Where - ISWC 2026 | Bari, Italy - When - October 25–26, 2026 Contact - All questions about submissions should be emailed to daniel.dobriy(a)wu.ac.at

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Final CfP: Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Applications (NPL-TeMA’26) Track of EPIA’26
by GAMALLO OTERO PABLO 13 May '26

13 May '26

Call-for-papers : Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Applications (NPL-TeMA’26) Track of EPIA’26 NLN-TeMA’26 will be held at the 25th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2026) taking place in Colégio dos Jesuítas do Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, from 2-4 September 2026. This track is organized under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). EPIA 2026 . URL https://epia2026.web.uma.pt/ This announcement contains the following: [1] Track description; [2] Topics of interest; [3] Important dates; [4] Paper submission; [5] Track fees; [6] Organizing Committee; and [7] Contacts. [1] Track Description The Track on Natural Language, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA 2026) brings together researchers and practitioners working in Human Language Technologies, including Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural Language Engineering (NLE), Text Mining (TM), Information Retrieval (IR), Large Language Model Research and Applications (LLMs), and related areas. As text remains the primary medium for creating and sharing knowledge, vast amounts of natural language data are generated daily across the Web and other digital platforms. This continuous growth presents significant opportunities—and challenges—for developing methods that can effectively understand, analyze, and extract value from textual information. Advances in NLP, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning have strengthened the role of language technologies in transforming semi-structured and unstructured data into actionable knowledge. NLP-TeMA 2026 welcomes contributions addressing both theoretical foundations and practical applications, fostering research that connects methodological innovation with real-world impact. Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the issues identified in section [2]. Revision of the papers will be double-blind by the members of the Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published by Springer in a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) corresponding to the proceedings of the 25th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2026. [2] Topics of Interest Theories, Algorithms and Models • Language and Cognitive Modeling • Tagging, Chunking and Parsing • Morphology and Word Segmentation • Natural Language Generation • Discourse and Pragmatics • Semantics and Text Inference • Language Resources: Acquisition and Lexical Knowledge • Textual Entailment and Paraphrase • Entity Recognition and Word Sense Disambiguation • Natural Language Understanding • Language Modeling • Mathematical Properties of Language • NLP for Low-Resource Languages Text Mining and NLP Applications • Text Clustering, Classification and Summarization • Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining • Computational Social Science • Multi-Word Units • Machine Learning for NLP and Text Mining • Spatio-Temporal and Large-Scale Text Mining • Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual Approaches • Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining • Information Retrieval and Information Extraction • Question-Answering and Dialogue Systems • Text-Based Prediction and Forecasting • Web Content Annotation • Domain-Specific Text Mining Applications (Health, Biomedical, Legal, etc.) • Large Language Models: Architectures, Tokenization, Prompting and Adaptation • Offensive Speech Detection and Analysis [3] Important dates Abstract submission deadline: May 15, 2026 Paper submission deadline: May 29, 2026 (AoE) (strict deadline – no extensions will be granted) Notification of paper acceptance: Julyy 12, 2026 Camera-ready papers: July 25, 2026 (AoE) Conference dates: September 2-4, 2026 [4] Paper submission Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research. Papers can have a maximum length of 12 pages, including references. All papers should be prepared according to the formatting instructions of Springer’s author guidelines. Authors should omit their names from the submitted papers and should take reasonable care to avoid indirectly disclosing their identity. References to own work may be included in the paper, as long as referred to in the third person. All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the conference management website at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2026 [5] Track Fees: Track participants must register at the main EPIA 2026 conference. [6] Organizing Committee: Joaquim Silva, jfs(a)fct.unl.pt, DI – FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal; (+351) 910 211 766 (Contact person). Pablo Gamallo, Pablo.gamallo(a)usc.gal, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Praza do Obradoiro, 0, 15705 Santiago de Compostela, Spain; (+34) 881816426 . Alípio Jorge, amjorge(a)fc.up.pt, Dep. Ciência de Computadores, Fac. Ciências, Universidade do Porto; 351 220402 959 . [7] Contacts: Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829‐516, Caparica, Portugal. Tel: (+351) 21 294 8536 (ext. 10732) / (+351) 910 211 766 ‐ Fax: (+351) 21 294 8541 ‐ E‐mail: jfs [at]fct [dot] unl [dot] pt

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Call for Papers: 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME)
by Rui Sousa Silva 13 May '26

13 May '26

Call for Papers: 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME) The LUHME 2026 workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era is part of EMNLP - The 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (https://2026.emnlp.org) Workshop description LLMs have revolutionized the development of interactional artificial intelligence (AI) systems, due to their accessibility to the general public. Significant advances continue to be observed in fields and applications such as multimodal conversational agents, emotionally and socially aware dialogue, hyper-personalized and context-adaptive interaction, human–AI collaboration and symbiotic AI, multi-party and social conversation modelling, immersive and embodied conversational systems, and responsible, controllable, and domain-aware interaction. The use of these interactional AI systems is increasingly widespread, as these models have produced remarkable achievements in several benchmarks. State-of-the-art NLP systems achieve impressive performance, but remain prone to brittleness in language understanding (LU); they often lack robust modelling of communicative intentions, pragmatic inference, and context-sensitive meaning, which are central to many EMNLP tasks (dialogue, QA, safety, content moderation, etc.). This raises doubts about the extent to which such systems can really understand human language(s). The rapid deployment of LLMs raises urgent questions about interpretability, trust, and accountability of systems that produce linguistically plausible but potentially misleading outputs. In this scenario, this dedicated workshop provides a venue for cross-fertilisation between formal/theoretical work and applied NLP, in line with EMNLP’s focus on cutting-edge, high-impact research in NLP. The 3rd Language Understanding the Human-Machine Era workshop (LUHME 2026) focuses on how meaning is represented, inferred, and negotiated across human and machine environments, with particular emphasis on logic-aware, pragmatics-sensitive, and socially grounded approaches to LU in NLP. The workshop brings together researchers in (computational) linguistics, formal semantics/pragmatics, dialogue and discourse, cognitive science, and AI safety/ethics to discuss what it means for systems to understand language in situated, interactive contexts. Relevant topic areas Submissions are invited on (but not limited to): * Language understanding in LLMs * Language grounding * AI‑mediated communication in high‑stakes domains (law, health, finance, governance) * Psycholinguistic approaches to Language Understanding * Discourse, pragmatics and Language Understanding * Intent detection * Computational treatment of speech acts, dialogue, and communicative intentions in interaction * Conversation analysis, narrative progression, and argumentation * Turn‑taking, repair, and alignment in human–AI interaction * Evaluation of Language Understanding * Human vs. machine Language Understanding * Machine translation/interpreting and Language Understanding * Multimodality and Language Understanding * Socio-cultural aspects in Language Understanding * Effects and risks of language misunderstanding * Manifestations of language (mis)understanding * NLU and toxic content * Ethical issues in Language Understanding * Distributional semantics and Language Understanding * Linguistic theory and LU by machines * Linguistic, world, and commonsense knowledge in Language Understanding * Role of language professionals in the LLM era * Understanding language and explainable AI * Use of LLMs in generating, analysing or evaluating linguistic data Diversity and Inclusion We particularly encourage submissions from underrepresented groups from any demographic or geographic minority, with disability, or others. The LITHME network (the nest of this proposal) is inherently inclusive, as it involves members from all EU countries and promotes participation from linguistic minorities. The workshop expands these principles of inclusion, by bringing language and computer scientists to the discussion on computational approaches to LU. Paper Submission Prospective authors are invited to submit original, unpublished work to the LUHME workshop, covering one or more of the workshop topics. Submissions must not have substantial overlap in either contribution or text with work previously accepted for publication as a full paper in another archival forum. Papers at workshops without archival proceedings and preprints are accepted. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference by the early registration deadline to present the paper at the workshop. This is a prerequisite for inclusion in the proceedings. Submission Instructions Papers must be written in English, be prepared for double-blind review using the ACL LaTeX template, and not exceed 8 pages. Authors are encouraged to include an ethics and/or a limitations section, which, together with references, does not count towards the page limit. Papers must be submitted via OpenReview. (https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/LUHME) Proceedings As in previous editions of the LUHME workshop, we intend to publish accepted papers in the ACL Anthology. Proceedings of the First LUHME Workshop<https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2024.luhme-1/> Proceedings of the Second LUHME Workshop<https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2025.luhme-1/> Important dates 30 June 2026: Paper submission deadline 31 August 2026: Notification of acceptance 15 September 2026: Camera-ready papers October 2026: LUHME workshop Programme Committee TBA Workshop Organisers Rui Sousa-Silva (University of Porto, Portugal) Henrique Lopes Cardoso (University of Porto, Portugal) Maarit Koponen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) Antonio Pareja-Lora (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain)

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CFP - DAAFRICA'2026 - CARI Workshop
by Mathieu ROCHE 13 May '26

13 May '26

CALL FOR SHORT PAPERS DAAFRICA'2026 - Workshop on Data Science and AI for Agriculture in Africa https://cari-conf.bj/calls/cari-workshops/daafrica-read-more Workshop supported by ASDS Event affiliated with CARI’2026 (https://cari-conf.bj/) October 21, 2026 Cotonou, Benin SCOPE Agriculture remains a cornerstone of Africa’s economy and livelihoods, yet the sector faces persistent challenges related to productivity, climate variability, market access, and food security. In response, the African Union Commission has developed a Digital Agriculture Strategy (DAS), adopted in February 2024, to foster universally accessible broadband and unlock the benefits of internet-based services for agriculture. The Inaugural African Union Conference on Digital Agriculture (December 2025, Addis Ababa) further emphasizes the need for innovation, climate-smart practices, and digital transformation to shape agricultural policy for Africa’s future. Data science has become a key enabler in this transformation. With the growing accessibility of data, farmers can now analyze information to facilitate decision-making. Emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) enable the collection and storage of farm and environmental data (e.g., soil moisture, water levels, weather conditions) in dedicated databases or data warehouses. These agricultural datasets can be combined with other sources—remote sensing, weather stations, satellites, web platforms, and social media—to address new challenges, including the ingestion and integration of heterogeneous data. Data science in agriculture aims to explore and mine agricultural data using a range of techniques, including machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, text mining, and large language models (LLMs). By leveraging these tools, agricultural professionals and decision-makers can generate actionable insights and knowledge to guide agricultural activities across Africa. This aligns with the focus of many African initiatives on digital agriculture: deploying low-cost, equitable digital tools to collect, manage, and analyze reliable data for decision-making, risk management, and support for the agro-ecological transition. TOPICS OF INTEREST This workshop encompasses all aspects concerning the intersection of data science and IA for agriculture in Africa, including but not limited to: - Smart Farming - Yield and Production - Plant Species Identification - Land Cover Monitoring - Crop Recommendation - Crop Monitoring and Forecasting - Animal and Plant Health Monitoring - Agroecology and Water Management - Food Safety and Security - Nutrition and Health - Forests and Agroforests - Soil Preservation - Policy and Regulation SUBMISSIONS Researchers, academics, and students working on the field of data science with application in agriculture in Africa are invited to submit short papers for oral presentations or posters. Submitted abstracts must be in English and will be reviewed by the workshop committees for suitability and interest to the DAAfrica audience. The authors can submit papers of unpublished work reporting original and early results, introducing new ideas or describing prototypes. Every accepted submission must have at least one author registered for the workshop. All submitted extended abstracts must follow the LNCS format in latex (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) with a page limit of up to 6 pages including the title page, figures, references, and an optional appendix. The abstracts should be submitted electronically in PDF format via EasyChair via the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=daafrica2026 Accepted extended abstract will be published as CEUR proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES - Submission deadline: June 26, 2026 - Notification to authors: July 15, 2026 - Camera-ready deadline: July 31, 2026 - Workshop: October 21, 2026 PARTICIPATION The workshop will be held in Cotonou, Benin, as an event affiliated to CARI’2026. This workshop will be a hybrid event that combines a “live” in-person event with a “virtual” online component. WORKSHOP CHAIRS - Paulin Melatagia, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroun - Mathieu Roche, CIRAD, UMR TETIS, France

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